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    Worth Gateway Shootout Tourney

    2014 - CBSA Worth Gateway Shootout - ASA Northern National Qualifier - Dates: 5/29/14 - 6/1/14 (Ages 10U through 18U) - Local teams could play 5/29/14. $450 (includes gate fee) – 5 game format (4 pool games), attendance prizes, Select Tourney. Completing only the registration form does guarantee...
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    Guest Player for Fall Invitational Tournament in Columbia, MO

    The 2003 10U "A" Prospects have been invited to an Invitational Tournament in Columbia, MO on October the 12th. It's a single day event consisting of a 4 gae guarantee to be played against some of the strongest teams in Missouri. We need one solid player to come join us to help show off the...
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    St. Louis Worth Prospects 10U Tryouts

    The 2003 Worth Prospects 10U will be holding tryouts on Saturday August 10th: Chesterfield Athletic Association Field D3 10:00am-noon. We are looking for strong and dedicated players with 2003 birthdays. We will play 10 Fall League games and two Fall tournaments in October. Pitchers and...
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    Tournament rant.

    Move on....best words ever! :-)
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    Tournament rant.

    It also cost your team four hundred dollars for the early exit. They could have played real competition in different tournament for 150 dollars less and it was a six gg. I guess that's the difference between a coach who knows what's best and a coach who, because they don't know how to train kids...
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    6 Game Guarantee in St Louis for $295.00

    AMERICAN AMATEUR YOUTH SOFTBALL ALLIANCE AAYSA Beginning this summer (2013) AAYBA will be adding a girls softball program (AAYSA) featuring a Non-Sanctioned "Open" World Series Tournament to be played in the St Louis metro areas. Teams from all sanctions are welcome ASA, NSA, USSSA, PONY...
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    Suggestions for 10U Practices?

    All the above suggestions are great. Just like what has been stated above...KEEP THEIR ATTENTION. 9/10 year olds lose focus fast. I have four coaches, including myself and during practice, we all run our own station. The stations depend on what our focus is wheter it be hitting or fielding...
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    Bunt situation, what do you do?

    I agree completely that when they are older they will handle it themselves. I used to get hit more than anyone when I played. I was a pitcher and guys like Bob Gibson were my idols, so if a batter crowded my plate I would reach out and touch them. BUT...I would get hit in return, it was tit...
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    Bunt situation, what do you do?

    That was my problem and it threw up some red flags for me. Don't get me wrong, I grew up playing old school hardcore ball and I have no problems teaching those methods later on, but at 10, that is just inappropriate.
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    Bunt situation, what do you do?

    Just a runner. In this scenario I'm talking about a runner, not a coach who tells his whole team to purposely interfere with a throw.
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    Bunt situation, what do you do?

    No, actually it was my HC, I am the AC of this particular team. I am the HC of another team in the same organization. You are 100% right, I definetely handled it the wrong way and should have allowed myself some time to cool down before I went off half cocked. By the way, I didn't do ANY of...
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    Bunt situation, what do you do?

    Let me try to make it more clear what I'm getting at. I teach my catcher to do the same exact thing as everyone above described. I teach her to take a step to the inside and create a lane. What happened to me was I had a coach tell a catcher to "hit the girl between the shoulder blades if she...
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    Bunt situation, what do you do?

    I agree with both of you, but in the event that an opposing coach has not taught his kids properly or if a kid just has a brain fart and runs on the inside of the baseline is what I am referring to.
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    Bunt situation, what do you do?

    Hypothical situation: Nobody on base, no out. Batter lays down a bunt and the catcher pre-sets her feet to make an inside thow to 1B. The runner is running on the inside of the baseline. Do you teach your catchers to hit the runner in the back with the ball? If you do, can you make me...
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    Calling Ptiches - Why are coaches so bad at it?

    I want to make sure I am understanding this before I say anything out of line. Are you saying that you are NOT the coach and you are telling your daughter not to listen to what the coach says?
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